Jun 8, 2010
Anointed for Life Pt 4
by Pastor Kevin Vaughn
In our last teaching we began to look at the first two of seven things listed in the book of Romans chapter 8 that will occur in our life when we allow the Holy Spirit to be the dominated force.
1. You will be liberated from sin.
2. The fruit of righteousness will function in your life naturally.3. Your mentality will be changed or the way you think will change.
Romans 8:5
5 For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit provides for us desires within to seek to gratify Him. Through being led by the Spirit you will be freed from setting your mind on the things of the flesh and He will lead your thinking to be set on the things of the Holy Spirit.
4. Through your mind to be controlled by the Holy Spirit you will become totally at peace (nothing missing nothing broken.)
Romans 8:6-8
6 Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
7[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
8 So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
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5. Being led by the Spirit brings healing to your body.
Romans 8:9-11
9 But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God]. [Romans 8:14.]
10 But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you].
11 And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
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6. You will put to death death the carnal nature and experience the God kind of Life.
Romans 8:12-14
12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
13 For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
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7. You will receive intimacy and oneness with the Father.
Romans 8:15-16
15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
16 The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.
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We have received the same Spirit that Jesus lived His Life by. Jesus went about His Life on this earth by the leading of the Holy Spirit that He was anointed with. We are anointed for life as well, and as we have seen, when we are led by the same Spirit that Jesus was led by, it will make every crooked place straight and rough place smooth. The Holy Spirit is desiring to lead you in all the Fathers right ways of living, when we allow Him to fulfill His mission through us we will truly experience the God kind of life.
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